Kirstina Quast, LICSW - Therapist in Minnesota

About Kirstina

Kirstina Quast is a licensed independent clinical social worker who helps adults and families facing stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, and relationship concerns. She brings practical support for issues like mood disorders, ADHD, addiction, compassion fatigue, and life changes. Kirstina works from Minnesota and draws on her clinical experience to offer clear, down-to-earth guidance.

She uses straightforward, flexible methods tailored to each person. Sessions focus on problem solving, building coping skills, and strengthening relationships within families.

Background and approach

Kirstina leans on approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-focused ideas, and EMDR when trauma is involved. Her background includes work across adult and children’s mental health, residential treatment, child welfare, and adoption and foster care services. That range informs how she helps people navigate adoption questions, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and family of origin issues.

She also supports people facing fertility struggles, end-of-life concerns, and separation or divorce. Kirstina aims to collaborate with each person to find realistic steps forward. She emphasizes creative thinking and practical strategies rather than one-size-fits-all advice.

Clients can expect a respectful, strengths-based approach that treats them as the expert on their own life. She holds a Minnesota LICSW, license number MN LICSW 18277, and has nine years of psychotherapy experience. Her work combines several evidence-informed methods to address trauma, grief, parenting, and relationship challenges in a way that fits the client’s needs.

How Kirstina’s Approaches Translate to Online Care

Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes the ways relationships shape feelings and behavior. In online sessions this can mean talking through family patterns, identifying attachment needs, and practicing new ways of relating. It is often useful for family dynamics, attachment issues, and blended family concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts influence moods and actions. In remote sessions this looks like identifying unhelpful thinking, trying new behaviors between sessions, and tracking progress. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the process, and the therapist works collaboratively to choose what fits best. She will listen to goals, weigh options like CBT or EMDR when trauma is present, and adjust techniques as needs change.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit work on parenting, grief, or relationship concerns into busy days and to maintain momentum between in-depth sessions. Licensed professionals can adapt these methods effectively over distance to support ongoing progress and problem solving.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.

Client-Centered Therapy

The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Kirstina help with?

She supports people with stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, mood disorders like bipolar and depression, ADHD, and coping with life changes.

What is her general therapeutic style?

She uses an eclectic, collaborative style that centers the client as the expert. Sessions focus on practical strategies, problem solving, and creative approaches that fit each person.

How much experience does she have?

Kirstina has nine years of experience working as a psychotherapist across settings such as adult and children’s mental health, residential treatment, child welfare, and adoption and foster care services.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

She is a licensed independent clinical social worker with Minnesota LICSW number MN LICSW 18277 and practices from Minnesota.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as session formats.

How are sessions paid for and what does cost look like?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule based on therapist availability.

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Experience: 9 years
Licensed: Minnesota
Languages: English

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